What is your favorite classical piece?

[kingjames]

I don't know about all of you but,I think classical music is the ultimate test for any vintage JBL. We all know what really made JBL famous "The L100's" and we know what made the L100's famous "Rock Music" In the 70's Rock never sounded so good than it did on the L100's. The true beauty and appreciation of vintage JBL'S comes from Classical music. To listen to all those symbal's, horns,trumpet's and drums is just breathtaking, I loved JBL for the way it made rock music sound when I was a teenager in the 70's"hell who don't like rock? I never tested JBL'S with rock music if I was going to buy a pair, I always used classical music. My favorite piece to check JBL'S ,is the theme from "How The West Was Won", you must hear this on some old JBL'S.Another piece is the main theme from the movie"Rudy" and the main theme from "Lonesome Dove". What is your favorite piece of classical music to play on your JBL'S? I haven't given up Rock music but now I am in my 50's more relaxed and can't take the volume like I used to.What ever you enjoy,enjoy it with JBL!

[Don Mascali]

Bach J.S: Toccata & Fuge D Minor. for the system work out and Chamber Music for gentle listening.

One of my favorite records was the 1812 on Telarc. It was amazing to see a groove take a hard right

[yggdrasil]

My favourite classical piece would be Gershwin, Rhapsody in blue.

[Rolf]

Bach J.S: Toccata & Fuge D Minor. for the system work out and Chamber Music for gentle listening.

One of my favorite records was the 1812 on Telarc. It was amazing to see a groove take a hard right

Both sounds even better on the CD!

One of my favorites is Tchaikovsky, Nut Cracker, Swan Lake etc.

Rolf

[Bernard Wolf]

Well Rolf, I don't want to fire up the old CD vs Vinyl thing again, but I have to tell you that at my house vinyl rules !! Especially with Classical music. Jazz, Electronic, Pop, what-have-you I can live with, but Classical....Mmmmm... as my wife says " listening to CD's is akin to talking with someone who does not breathe" !!

Long live modern String Quartets !

Bernard

[Rolf]

Well Rolf, I don't want to fire up the old CD vs Vinyl thing again, but I have to tell you that at my house vinyl rules !! Especially with Classical music. Jazz, Electronic, Pop, what-have-you I can live with, but Classical....Mmmmm... as my wife says " listening to CD's is akin to talking with someone who does not breath" !!

Long live modern String Quartets !

Bernard

Very well Bernard, I can agree to a point. BUT what I can't like after the cd came along is all that "pops", "clicks" and noise from the picup. But thats me. Besides that, the sound of vinyl is ok. Many recordings from "earlier times" also sounds better than many new recordings today. (But not all). I guess MP3 and other compression on recording today in to blame?

Rolf

[Bernard Wolf]

Yes, noise can be an issue, but with a better front end setup and a bit of luck things can get real good. For all their imperfections Lp's still end up sounding more like real music to me that Cd's. But then again, I am a real old codger !

Bernard

[toddalin]

One of my favorites is Pictures at an Exibition and I have it in classical, as well as Emerson, Lake, and Palmer in vinyl, CD, and Dolby Surround CD.

I also like Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor (for those less familiar with classical, Phantom of the Opera), Rodeo by Aaron Copeland, and the Nutcracker.

[scott fitlin]

One of my favorites is Pictures at an Exibition and I have it in classical, as well as Emerson, Lake, and Palmer in vinyl, CD, and Dolby Surround CD.

Ill second Pictures at an Exhibition! And if you play the Emerson, Lake and Palmer album, theres that one bass note that is the bass test of all time!

[Alex Lancaster]

Nothing of JS Bach, Vivaldi, etc., is really "classical", they are baroque, to me, the first classics are the last production of Haydn and WA Mozart.

[speakerdave]

Maybe we should have subcategories:

Sonata (by instrument)
Concerto (by instrument)
Chamber Music
Symphony
Oratorio
Mass
Opera
Rock Adaptation
Pops
Movie Music With Violins
etc.

[Mr. Widget]

From reading the earlier posts on this thread I got the impression that there really aren't many classical music listeners here...

Last night I was enjoying MTT conducting Stravinsky recorded here in SF at Davies Hall and wondering if that was "Classical" since the purists call it modern.


Widget

[eyedoc]

Wow, this is tough, as I listen to almost as much jazz and classical as any thing else.

Gershwin, Rhapsody in blue (have several different recordings)
Copland, Third symphony (on telarc label)- killer recording
Dvorak's “New World” Symphony
Samuel Barber, adagio for strings
Grezky (not wayne the hockey player) third symphony
Stravinsky, Rite of Spring
Rossini, Barber of Seville (Rabbit of Seville if you are a buggs bunny fan)
Mussorgsky, Night On A Bare Mountain (or mayby Night on Bald Mountain)
Stravinsky, Firebird Suite
Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet

All of these are very powerful, and not for the faint of heart of woofer.
eyedoc

[zhid]

this one

by this one conductor -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN21c9RX1zA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtW40OtK_KA

[jcrobso]

I love when the cannons go off at the end!
There is a lot of dynamic range in this piece. John